We have been reading the book Johnny Tremain in class lately. For those of you who have never read it, it’s about a teenager living in Boston at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. One of my students was writing a newspaper article about a Tory family that was in trouble with the opposition. I reproduce it here in its original form:
“The Lyte’s left town yesterday. Apperntly the wigs were after the Lyte’s for supporting the British.”
Somehow the thought of being savaged by a mob of hair-pieces must have frightened them.